If, as starting graduate students, you are following my first key advice of reading on a regular basis scientific manuscripts related to your field of
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Take the time to explore the “impossibles”…
There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
Turn it all off…
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about
DOs and DON’Ts of scientific presentations
Every meeting brings about few presentations for which the same mistakes seems to happen again and again. Just coming back from a major conference in
If an image is worth a thousand words, imagine a thousand images…
It happens every so often that you might need to explain a complex concept or present a vast amount of data in a short amount
Google, Apple and you: intellectual properties
This got to be the most twisted line of thought in all of this smartphone patent war I have seen up to now in order
Wikipedia and scientific research
Your a physicist and sitting at a conference for which the speaker is a talking about a specialize biology topic. This person is going on
A single advice about publishing your first scientific paper…
I always wondered what would be the single, most important advice I could give a new graduate student who is looking forward to have his
E.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists | Video on TED.com
For all of you out there, here is a positively inspiring (TED) talk about scientific research… E.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists | Video on
Emotion and story telling in a scientific talk?
During a recent group meeting, one of the student was making a comment regarding the document really bad powerpoint by Seth Godin. Her point was
Don’t Listen To Advice, And Other Advice From Nobel Laureates – Science News
😉 Don’t Listen To Advice, And Other Advice From Nobel Laureates – Science News.
Don’t forget the basic stuff!
This semester I thought an undergraduate laboratory to last year engineering students. These will be entering the job market (or pursue graduate studies) in a
Which type is your thesis advisor?
In a discussion with a postdoc of mine, she was telling me that she observed that advisors are of three types: opener, middle cruncher and
A few more “must read” for new gradute students
In the previous post, I was directing interested students to the free book Organizing Creativity. There are a few more excellent resources on the web
Recommended book: Organizing Creativity by Daniel Wessel
The majority of graduate students that I had the chance to supervised (yes I consider student supervision as a core mission of being a researcher
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